Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass [antikvár]

PUBLISHER'S NOTE The text of this edition of Alice in Wonderland is that of the first edition. A few verbal changes were made in later editions, but these were of minor importance, with one exception. The verses on pages 136-7 were later expanded, and the full version known to all Alice-lovers is as follows: 'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, 'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.'' As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes. When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark. And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, But, when the tide rises and sharks are around. His voice has a timid and tremulous sound. I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye. How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie. The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat. While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat. When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon. Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon: While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl. And concluded the banquet - How the Story Was Told The story of Alice's adventures underground was first told by word of mouth, to distract a little girl of seven and her two sisters, during a river picnic on a hot July day in the year 1862. Alice Pleasaunce Liddell, an enchantingly lovely child, drew the story from her devoted friend, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (that was Lewis Carroll's real name) as he and another friend, Canon Duckworth, paddled her with Lorina the elder and Edith the younger sister upstream from Oxford. The little girls sat together in the stern with the rudder ropes in their laps. Facing them were 'the Duck' and [behind him] Dodgson, plying their oars lazily while the sun shone down dazzlingly on the still water. Alice grew restless, having nothing to do, and begged for a story 'with plenty of nonsense in it', and so Charles Dodgson, speaking to the children over the Canon's shoulder, began with the words which were to become famous all over the world: ''Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do.' Mr Dodgson (as he was always called by his little friends) was a Mathematics don at Christ Church, Oxford, where the Liddells' father was Dean, He invented and adopted the name of Lewis Carroll for his non-professional writing long before he invented Alice. Under his own name he published his learned books about Mathematics which, so the story runs, - 11 -